Two students detained for threatening peers

Two students on separate Lubbock Independent School District campuses were detained Tuesday for making threats, police reports indicate.

A 14-year-old male Evans Junior High School student allegedly made a threat Tuesday afternoon to a female student during a passing period in a hallway, a police report states.

The girl said the boy was standing in front of her locker and she asked him to move away, the report said.

He moved away from the locker but said he did it because he liked another student but didn't like her and stated that "if any of that (expletive deleted) like Columbine happens, you will be the first to go," reports indicate.

Columbine High School is the suburban Denver school where two male students gunned down 12 students and a teacher before killing themselves in April.

The girl told police she was threatened by the male student's statement and believed he would shoot her at school, the report said.

An assistant principal alerted police and two other students overheard the threat, according to the report.

The 14-year-old told police he was angry at the girl because he said she is a snob and told police he didn't intend for her to feel threatened by the Columbine statement.

He was taken to the Lubbock police juvenile division and to the Lubbock County Juvenile Justice Center, the report said.

Later that day, an 11-year-old male Wester Elementary School student allegedly threatened to kill a classmate.

According to a police report, the 11-year-old was upset that there was a new student in the class and because he no longer got the supplies he normally gets.

The student made the threat, and his teacher asked him to stop making threats or he would be suspended, the report said.

The student replied "So, I'll just beat him up whenever I come back," and added that he would bring a razor blade and cut the other student, the report said. The boy also said he would cut the other student across the wrists so he would bleed to death, the report indicates.

The report said the boy had been making threats toward several students.

The boy was arrested and transported to the Lubbock police juvenile division and then to the Lubbock County Juvenile Justice Center.